Genesis 42:1
And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his sons, 'Why do you look at each other?'
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Genesis 41:57and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.
Exodus 5:19And the authorities of the sons of Israel see them in affliction, saying, 'Ye do not diminish from your bricks; the matter of a day in its day.'
Joshua 7:10And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'Rise for thee, why [is] this? — thou [art] falling on thy face?
2 Kings 8:3And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman turneth back from the land of the Philistines, and goeth out to cry unto the king, for her house, and for her field.
Jeremiah 8:14Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.
Acts 7:12and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:1
We had, in the foregoing chapter, the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph had interpreted: in this and the following chapters we have the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph himself had dreamed, that his father's family should do homage to him. The story is very largely and particularly related of what passed between Joseph and his brethren, not only because it is an entertaining story, and probably was much talked of, both among the Israelites and among the Egyptians, but because it is very instructive, and… Read the whole commentary →